Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers

Rapid spikes in online traffic can challenge even the best web sites and applications. During online sales events, even a brief outage can cost you thousands of customers.

Cloud Load Balancers manage online traffic by distributing workloads across multiple servers and resources—automatically or on demand. They maximize your workload performance and help prevent overload to help give your users a seamless experience.

Built-in High Availability

Supports SSL Termination

Offloads public key encryption and decryption, and provides HTTP to HTTPS redirect to help secure transactions.

"We are able to focus on what we do best and let Rackspace take care of the infrastructure, because the team at Rackspace has a deeper understanding of the Windows Server OS than any other hosting company I’ve seen."

Matthew Swanson

Chief Software Architect, Commissions Inc

Top Features

Advanced Algorithms

Route traffic to backend nodes in the most optimal way for your app. Support includes round-robin, weighted round-robin, least connections, weighted least connections, and random.

Full-Featured API

Use a RESTful web service interface to perform tasks like creating and removing load balancers, adding servers to a pool, or removing servers from a pool.

Cloud Load Balancer Pricing

Get high availability without committing to a long-term contract. We charge for each Cloud Load Balancer instance by the hour, plus concurrent connections. Then we add bandwidth charges starting at $0.12 per outgoing GB£0.0737 per outgoing GBA$0.15 per outgoing GB€0.1017 per outgoing GB. We don't charge for incoming bandwidth.

Type

Per Instance

$0.015/Hr

$10.95/Mo

Per Instance + SSL

$0.05/Hr

$36.50/Mo

Concurrent Connections

$0.015/Hr

$10.95/Mo

Type

Per Instance

£0.0093/Hr

£6.789/Mo

Per Instance + SSL

£0.0307/Hr

£22.411/Mo

Concurrent Connections

£0.0093/Hr

£6.789/Mo

Type

Per Instance

A$0.0188/Hr

A$13.724/Mo

Per Instance + SSL

A$0.0625/Hr

A$45.625/Mo

Concurrent Connections

A$0.0188/Hr

A$13.724/Mo

Type

Per Instance

€0.0128/Hr

€9.344/Mo

Per Instance + SSL

€0.0424/Hr

€30.952/Mo

Concurrent Connections

€0.0128/Hr

€9.344/Mo

Currency:

Per instance — Billed at $0.015/hr£0.0093/hrA$0.0188/hr€0.0128/hr, metered in one-minute increments

Per instance with ssl — Billed at $0.05/hr£0.0307/hrA$0.0625/hr€0.0424/hr, metered in one-minute increments

100 Concurrent connections — Billed at $0.00015/hr£0.000093/hrA$0.000188/hr€0.000128/hr for each connection based on average utilization sampled every 5 minutes

Bandwidth

Outgoing —Outgoing bandwidth usage for Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, Cloud Load Balancers, and Cloud Big Data is aggregated per account across all US regions. Tiered pricing applies to your total usage, so you pay less per GB the more you use.